A top Malaysian soccer player is "responding well" after undergoing a three-hour skin graft procedure, a sports official said Friday, following an acid attack that left the player in intensive care and shocked the country.
The attack on Selangor FC and Malaysia winger Faisal Halim last week at a shopping mall outside Kuala Lumpur has marred the planned kickoff of the country's soccer season this weekend after a series of violent incidents involving players.
Faisal was left with fourth-degree burns that impeded his movement and speech. He was attacked just days after his Malaysia teammate, Akhyar Rashid, was injured in a robbery outside his home in the eastern state of Terengganu.